Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and 10 Republicans who sit on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee he chairs want EPA director Gina McCarthy to turn over information about EPA litigation and regulatory actions planned for the remainder of the Obama Administration.
In a letter sent Wednesday, the Senators charged the EPA with “exposing EPA’s failure to keep commitments made to improve transparency about litigation and rulemaking petitions.”
The letter told McCarthy that Congress and the American public should have a clear understanding of the ongoing litigation and the regulatory and administrative actions that may be underway or planned by the Environmental Protection Agency.
“However, much of this important information is not publicly or readily available. Such a lack of transparency about EPA activities is especially concerning in light of the transparency commitments you made in 2013 to members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works during the Senate’s consideration of your nomination to serve as EPA Administrator,” the EPW Republican members said in the letter.
They also said they were “equally concerned by the lack of transparency throughout EPA’s rulemaking process, especially at a time of administration transition.”
The Senators said the facts they raised in the letter “raise significant questions regarding EPA’s credibility and the utility of the Unified Agenda and other public information about EPA’s regulatory plans.”
